Final Cut and your social shield

Now i'm not normally one for reviews of any kind, i see no point in critically disecting a piece of art in the vein hope people will base their decision to see it on my interpretation.
Never the less during one of my frequent couch expeditions i managed to check this Jude Law flick out and the premise behind it sparked my interest.
It was one of the most refreshing films i've seen in a long time.

At the wake of an actor (Jude Law) who has died in sudden and unexpected circumstances, a group of friends gather around the grieving widow (Sadie Frost) only to find themselves being filmed to conclude a movie the deceased had been working on in the months leading up to his death. To help them understand why she wishes to complete the film, Sadie shows the group earlier footage in which they've been filmed unaware by video cameras hidden around the house (in the living rooms, bedrooms and toilet!) at dinners, parties and so on. The footage of the friends, interspersed with Jude's own to-camera sequences (commenting on what they are watching) turns out to be shocking and often explicit recording of personal conversations, drug taking and sexual encounters. As a result the wake increasingly descends into an absurdly comic, recriminatory and violent debacle as the group confront each other over the truths revealed on video.


The sheer intensity of the situations that arise when the truth about the various individuals debauchery is discovered is a stark indication of just how sheltered from each other individuals are these days.
Each one wastes no time in casting judgement upon whichever peer is being subjected to the shame of the truth, and each one recoils in horror when their own likeness is seen upon screen stealing from their friends purse, or ploughing their friends wife, or stealing their friends undies, or...well im sure you get the idea.


So ridiculous are social standards and constructs these days that the average individual spends the majority of their time attempting to project an image of who they've been trained to believe they should be and yet everyone of us deep down knows who we truly are, yet the fear mechanism that perpetuates capitialist societies produces an inequality gap within ourselves, between our soul and our shell..
This is a draining activity..people have to turn to power struggles in order to maintain some level of spiritual energy and coherent cognition.
But if it doesn't come from love, which is all anyone is ever chasing anyway (and i'm not talking about the love between a man and a woman, I'm talking about One Love) it has to come from fear..

Cutting down someone else is the quick fix...degrading someone in order to subconsciously, or perhaps even consciously, make yourself feel more secure is nothing more than a junkie taking a hit.
Those quickest to discount entire opinions via some foundationless insult (i.e politicians and corporate cock gobblins who have perfected the 'skill' of responding to a question without answering it) are those most afraid of change, of that which is different.
They are also those who are most afraid of themselves, those with the most secrets and skeletons.

The fact is that the vast majority of people are absolutely impervious to facts. Test the average man by asking him to listen to a simple sentence which contains one word with associations to excite his prejudices, fears or passions -- he will fail to understand what you have said and reply by expressing his emotional reaction to the critical word. It was long before I understood this fact of psychology. Even to this day, it surprises me that there should be minds which are unable to accept any impression equably and critically. I have heard many great orators. The effect has nearly always been to make me wonder how they have the nerve to put forward such flimsy falsehoods -Edward Alexander Crowley

Word Eddie.
Why are we so conditioned to make subjective judgements first?
Eddie had another idea back in the day, suggesting that the most scientific and reliable way of exploring people's unconscious minds would be to watch their reaction to a well thought-out series of unfamiliar circumstances.
One could compare their respective qualities, such as will-power, patience, dignity, courage, imperturbability, and so on. Such data should be of great use in answering the question, 'Wherewithal shall a young man mend his ways?

How many people in this day and age are capable of dealing with "unfamiliar circumstances"?
Why are we so afraid of change when change is the only constant in this world?
It is the only thing we know to be absolutely and unequivically true and yet it is the one thing we avoid at all costs.
Oh we go on about progress and technological change..but bar the luxuries of the middle to upper class what is any different?
We still work for a majority of our lives, not out of any real necessity but rather the induced conditioned idea that we should contribute to the society we live in.
And yet right alongside this unquestioned democratic belief is the widespread acceptance of corruption and deceit amongst those in control of our interests.

Change is inevitable & knowledge is the only form of preperation